Motivational Quotes

Confidence

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Confidence

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Storey, David

Show me a man with head held high and I'll show you a man who can't get used to bifocals.

Morse Telegraph Newsletter

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Smith, Stan

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Brooks, Phillips

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Pitt, William

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Syrus, Publilius

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Auerbach, Red

10.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dryden, John

11.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Penn, William

12.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

13.

If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

David Nicholls

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Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Hare, J. C.

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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

Adams, Franklin P.

17.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Gooden, Dwight

18.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

West, Jerry

19.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

John of the Cross, St.

22.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Nicklaus, Jack

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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Lloyd, Chris Evert

24.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Hazlitt, William

25.

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

26.

Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

Proverb

27.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Addison, Joseph

28.

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Philip Adams

29.

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself,'It all depends on me.'

Andre Gide

31.

The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

32.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Staubach, Roger

33.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Boiste

34.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

Paolo Giordano

35.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Tina Fey

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

Watch my dust.

Ruth, Babe

38.

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

39.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale

40.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

41.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Landers, Ann

42.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Bradshaw, Terry

43.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Paterno, Joe

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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Maurois, Andre

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Confidence awakens confidence.